Alright guys, BIG BIG update. I guess I can start by saying hurricane Katrina really did a lot of damage to us, too. Just lot of indirect damage. But after all was said and done we ended up pulling through just fine. After my pair of clowns died during katrina I started wondering what to do next. A few days later the return pump on our system died! That was the bigger problem because we had no filtration and hardly no circulation with this pump being dead. After trying hard to get a pump overnighted to me I gave up and put my brain in action. I rigged a MJ1200 (good job marineland) to work as my return pump and it did surprisingly well!
I finally was able to order a new pump a week later and got a quietone 1200. All in all, it has been a great pump but it is not as quiet as they want you to think. Then came the visit to the LFS(s). Boy did they take a huge hit! Only one store remained unscathed throughout the entire storm and I was really amazed to see how well it faired.
We made friend with some locals who were having the same troubles we were with our tanks. We helped each other in whatever way we could and I ended up fish sitting for them for a week while they were moving their stuff to Dallas. They wanted to go a different route with their current 90 so they were looking to give it away! Immediatly Jaime started lighting up and would not keep quiet. All I heard all day was "PUFFER THIS PUFFER THAT" finally I built up the couraged and asked if we could inherit the 90. (Thanks Tim and Donna) So, I guess we ended up making good friends and aquired a new a new tank in the process. Needless to say, the tank was absolutly great and jaime is in the process of saving up to buy everything needed to start that puppy up!
Sadly our friend have moved, however. They had to move with their job and off to dallas they went! Although saddened to have some newfound reefer friends move away, we are happy they were able to move their fish sucessfully and we gave them some corals to start their new tank up
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So after this long down time of not really buying much except the red frogspawn, we went crazy. Liveaquaria.com quickly made 400+ dollars off of us as we began to stock our tank with corals and new inhabitants. Our first shipment arrived with a TR Black Ocellaris and TR Orange Ocellaris. Sadly a few days after having them both together the Orange ocellaris bailed and jumped tank. So, I decided something needed to be done! A second TR Black Ocellaris was purchased and every since they have been working on pairing up. But they dont seem to be doing too well, one continually chases and nips at the other one (who is bigger than the chaser) and I just look at this like they are fighting. Who knows, as long as they both stay healthy and noone gets hurt I dont see much harm, they are both happy it seems.
Anyway, we also started visiting LFS the past week and are happy to see that a few have began getting shipments again! Onto the list of what we added since we last posted:
-Yellow Fiji Leather
-red frogspawn
-green w/ pink tip frogspawn
-red and green open brain
-teal lobophyllia
-red sea xenia
-yellow sea cucumber (which has split into two)
-tiger tail cucumber
-4 large tongan super nessarius
-a new teal ricordea
-crocea clam
-about 7 more lbs of live rock
-fire shrimp
-the two black clowns
-a hitchhiker green striped floresc mushroom (from the yellow fiji leather)
The tank is really coming together. I would post a few pics but the camera batteries died! I have it charging and plan to post a few pics in the next few hours...
So whats up, how has everyone been?
